Hutment

Word HUTMENT
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Definitions and meanings of "Hutment"

What do we mean by hutment?

An encampment of huts. noun

Accommodation in huts; housing. noun

An encampment of huts noun

An encampment of huts (chiefly military) noun

An encampment of huts

A type of shantytown whose buildings are made with mud brick, mortar, or found materials. Prior to the 1950's, a "hutment" could mean any sort of temporary barracks. Urban Dictionary

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The word "hutment" in example sentences

Medical attention: One hutment is reserved for an Infirmary. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The hutment has two rooms, one having 20 bunks and the other 23 bunks, all triple tiered, as well as a refectory. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A special hutment serves as a washroom and has sufficient taps. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Hygiene: There is a hutment for toilet purposes, with taps and showers, which allows the prisoners hot and cold water for their daily ablutions. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The barbed wire encirclement of about 40 metres by 10 metres encloses a hutment of the usual type, a large shed, a small building which is the guard room, and a small place which serves as a laundry and has a bathroom and the latrines. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A special hutment serves as a washroom, with plenty of taps, and every man has the right to a shower every week. ❋ Unknown (2010)

On the day of the visit, the interior of the hutment was littered with uniforms and underclothing hung out to dry - the majority of the prisoners having had to work under adverse conditions the preceding day. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The prisoners wash themselves in wooden buckets arranged under a pent-house at one extremity of the hutment. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Even the most intense of fire exchanges cause less civilian casualties than a single blow of a tank that demolishes an entire hutment. ❋ Saad Khan (2010)

The case against Sebastian alias ` Cheviathan ', is that he had kidnapped the child, Saranya, from her mother's side by entering their ill-secured hutment at night. ❋ Unknown (2008)

“Demolition of jhuggi (hutment) clusters in Delhi, sealing of shops and many orders on labour laws have been totally in contradiction of democratic principles”, said Bhushan adding that there needs to be check on the Indian judiciary. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Upendra Yadav's wailing widow recalled that the officer reached the hutment, located barely 50 yards from the officer's quarter, late in the night in an inebriated condition. ❋ Abhay N (2007)

We were now entering the old military hutment they were using as the project manager's office. ❋ Davis, Lindsey (2001)

The ring was in the day room of the central hutment. ❋ Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- (1986)

There were branches that were used as pathways across the village, and children's swings made out of the old tree's beards, and in places where the tree stooped low down towards the earth its leaves formed roofs for many a hutment that seemed to hang from the greenery like the nest of a weaver bird. ❋ Rushdie, Salman (1967)

I managed to lease a disused hutment from the R.A.F. on a strictly temporary basis, and I set the office up in that. ❋ Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 (1951)

Bourguette on the 28th and from there marched a few miles to a hutment camp at La Lacque. ❋ F. L. Morrison (N/A)

The few cases occurred in billets behind the lines, and there, as at Salisbury Plain, it was evidently a matter not of house or hutment infection, but of conveyance through the intermediation of drinking vessels in refreshment booths and estaminets. ❋ John George (1918)

Of necessity, it was a tented camp, but large hutment buildings were rapidly raised for Headquarters 'offices, pay, and other purposes, and for stores – ordnance, army service, medical, etc. – and dry canteens (for alcohol was rigorously excluded from the camp and district). ❋ John George (1918)

Long before the hour announced for the service the soldier boys had crowded the hutment to its greatest capacity. ❋ Grace Livingston Hill (1906)

These hutment colonies consist of hovels made of a variety of hard and soft materials like pieces of wood, [rags], tin sheets, mud, bricks and any such thing that comes in handy. [Pushpa] Agnihotri, *Poverty [amidst] prosperity: survey of slums* (1994), p.44 ❋ Abu Yahya (2010)

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